Bookstand

Charles-Auguste Questel

Date

1839

Type

Bookstand

Medium

Ebony, ebony veneer, ebonized maple, oak, maple, rosewood, snakewood, ivory, mother-of-pearl; brass hardware and mounts; lined with silk velvet not original to the piece

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

2006.518

Credit

Purchase, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and Rogers Fund, by exchange, 2006